Low fat products were certainly promoted heavily in their day, but I don't recall lots of news articles bemoaning the fact that the corporations of America had jumped on the low fat bandwagon and that consumers were embracing the low fat dogma with fervor. My take on that is that the low fat dogma sounded more scientific; if you cut fat from your food intake, you'll lose fat from your body, right? 30 some years of that has proven that notion dead wrong.